The Delhi High Court observed that a spouse, who has a reasonable capacity of earning but chooses to remain unemployed should not be permitted to burden the other spouse with expenses in the form of maintenance.
Forty years after the introduction of the domestic violence provision in the Indian Penal Code, women are still at risk of having their complaints dismissed or disbelieved by police and judiciary
The Kerala High Court has clarified that family courts have the jurisdiction to hear original petitions seeking relief under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.
The Court was hearing an appeal against a Bombay High Court judgment which held that a person who has exercised the right to self-identify as a woman is considered an 'aggrieved person' under Section 2(a) of the Act.